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or dishonest as not to employ the rent by me 

 given as intended "... the property was to go to 

 the town of Ecleshall. Although the estate has 

 not been forfeited by the Corporation of Stafford, 

 complaints have now and then been made that 

 they have not always fulfilled the terms of the 

 trust. 



Mr. Alderman Shallcross supplied Mr. R. B, 

 Marston with a long account of a visit he made 

 to Walton's cottage at Shallowford in May, 1887, 

 from which I take the following — 



" The Cottage is situate about five minutes' 

 walk from Norton Bridge Station. . . . From 

 this lowly abode Walton went forth at sunrise 

 with his familiar friend Bryan Lane, with 

 whom, and a book, he tells us 



' He loiter'd long days near Shawford brook.' 



In the merry month of May the vicinity 

 of Walton's Cottage must have been in 

 his days a charming spot — secluded and 

 beautiful — with nothing to disturb the per- 

 vading stillness but the singing of the 

 birds or the musical ripple of Shawford 

 Brook." 



